Of Bonding And Breaking - Kiwha Lee Blocman & Chloe Po

This exhibition is held from 11th January 2019 to 8th March 2019 over at NPE gallery in the middle of nowhere, just joking, it's in the industrial area of Kallang. Meaning parking's easy after 5pm.

This show featured Chloe Po and Kiwha Lee Blocman who were offered residency at the place and a show there too.

Kiwha showed her works with her signature shapes. She used them to good effect and uses them to express herself, the world situation and things/feeling of the things around her. She painted layers in some pieces. Some pieces she used paint transfer. And she also showed an Ipad-created digital works with her shapes. The works are more complex now and visually more enticing and mature. She will be heading off to New York to do an MFA at one of the famous NY art schools. Hope it really helps her, in the way Alvin Ong's latest works at Yavuz (will write about it soon) which are post MFA at the Royal College of Art London, have really improved leaps and bounds. Anyway tons of museums there to inspire her too.

Chloe Po showed glue works and paintings. She's doing her MFA now at LaSalle/Goldsmith's. Her glue works are interesting but she hasn't reached a satisfactory skill level for that medium. A curator would say that the works are unpolished or unfinished and if wasn't a residency show, I don't think they are ready yet. Her abstract paintings were ok.

Chloe Po

Chloe Po

Chloe Po

Kiwha

Kiwha

Chloe Po

Chloe Po

Kiwha

Chloe Po

Chloe Po

Chloe Po

Kiwha

Kiwha

Point for collectors: Kiwha - Strong Buy rating. She is committed to her practice and has shown the committment by uprooting and going for her MFA. And with global exposure, her works will get better. But it will take a lot of skill, perservance, luck and the opportune moment to make it big in the saturated NY art scene. As for Chloe Po, hold rating. But as with all young artists, we are rooting for them and always watching out.